"A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care."
"This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion."
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Source: Does the US drug approval process need an overhaul? by Lacie Glover, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2015.
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